As the headmistress tells her visibly sick partner about her day, it's clear that Geraldine is full of spirit despite her illness.

The scenes tackled loss over the Christmas period

The pair share just two short scenes together, with the second one featuring Geraldine coughing in bed before being comforted by the headmistress.

Scene three - which again was cut from the film - sadly sees Emma Thompson 's character Karen announcing that Geraldine had passed away.

It showed another side to the headmistress

Director Richard Curtis has explained that the story was meant to show that each person has their own complicated tale of love.

Talking about the deleted scenes, he said: "The idea was meant to be you just casually met this very sort of stern headmistress and the idea was meant to be that later on in the film we suddenly fell in with the headmistress and you realise that no matter how unlikely it seems, that any character you come across in life has their own complicated tale of love."

The scenes have recently resurfaced

Love Actually dominated the box office when it was released in November 2003.

It featured an all-star cast including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Keira Knightley .